Box-fastener.



S. WHITEHALL.

BOX FASTBNEB.

APPLICATION nun 12.6. 1909.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

SAMUEL WHITEHALL, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

BOX-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ()(it. 5, 1909.

Application filed March 5, 1909. Serial No. 481,444.

'vide a simple means for locking the lid on the box and also etl'eetuallv preventing bulging of the sides thereof with the use of a eomparatively small amount of wire as e0u1-,

pared with the wire usually employed for binding veneer boxes together.

\Vi'th the above and other objet-ts in view, the present invention eonsists in the combination and arrangement of parts herein after more fully described, illustrated in the aerompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the appended elaims, it being understood that ehanges may be made in the] form. proportion, sizeand minor details without departing from the spirit or sacril'n-ing an) of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings:Figure I is a perspetw ti\'e view of a .box illustrating the fastening means in operative position at one end of the box and III the proeess ot application at the opposite end of the box. Fig. 2 1s a J'tllhttl set'tional view through a portion of one end of the box. Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the fastening means.

.lteferring now more particularly to'the aot-ompauying dra wings, the reference Charart'er t indicates the bottom of the box, 2 the sides. 3 the ends and 4 the top or lid'of the box, the bottom, sides and top, eaeh hav ing a ole-at 5 at eaeh end against the inner face of Wllitll are disposed the ends 3.

Ordinarily veneer boxes are bound toget her by wire whieh requires considerable wire for the purpose. I aim to obviate the usual amount of wire employed for binding boxes and yet ettieiently seem-e the parts together and look the top or lid against displat-ement. To this end I provide a U-shaped member (3 (-omposed pf wire and provided at the bottom and top at eat-h end with alining pairs of perforatim-is 7, which perforations coincide with the perforations 8 in the upper and lower eleats 5. 'lhrough these perforations pass the legs 1) of the U-shaped fastenings t3 and when the bight portions: 10 of the U-shaped fastenings are disposed against. the outer fare of the bottom I, I bend the outer ends of the legs 9 over the outer fare of the lid of the box and then do\vnwa|'dl against the outer fares of the rorresponding upper cleats. as imlieated at ll. with the ex tremities of each leg directed underneath ol' the upper cleats 5. I then drive staples into the under faee of the upper eleat .3 in embracing relation with said extremities of the legs 9 to effectually hold the extremitie against aeridental displaeement.

Thus it will be seen that my improved fastening means serves not only as a means for lot-king the top or lid in position. but it will also be seen that it reinforees the box in order to pudpnt the eontents thereof from bulging out the top and bottom sides sueh being the. Widest and weakest part of the box.

The fastenipg is just as elteetii'e for small size .boxes as a reinforcing wire passed entirelymround the box and etleets a eonsiderablesai'ing of wire. Furthermore, in the use a my improved fastening means there tltt no sharp points extending from the box to injure persons handling the same.

\Vhat is claimed is:-

1. IIn a box fastening, a box providedat each end with pairs of perforations, and U-shaped fastening members eat-h having legspassed through the eorresponding pairs of perforations with their big'ht portions disposed beneath the bottom of the box and the extremities of the legs thereof bent over the top and ends of-the box.

2. In a device of the character described, a box. including a bottom, top, sides and ends, eleats seeured to the opposite ends of the bottom, top and sides, the bottom and top, and the cleats seeured thereto beingprovided 'with alining perforations, and U shaped members having legs passed through the alining perforations at eaeh end of the box witlrthe bight portions of the members disposed against the under face of the bottom and with the ends of the legs bent over the upper face of the top downwardly against the outer faces of the cleats secured to the top with their extremities directed inwardly against the under fare of the eleats of the, top, and staples driven into the under IIO face of the cleats of the top in embracing rebight portion of each U-shaped member dislation with said extremities of the legs of posed against the bottom of the box and the said fastenin members. extremities of the legs bent over the top 3. The com ination with a box including and directed inwardly of the box, and staples 5 a top, U-shaped members having their legs driven into the box in embracing relation assed through the bottom and the top of t e with the inwardly directed portions of the ox at each end of the latter with the bight extremities of said legs to prevent displace-- portion of each U-shaped member disposed ment of the extremities of the legs.

against the bottom of the box and the ex- In testimon whereof I afiix my signature, [0 tremitiesof the legs bent over the top and in presence 0 two witnesses.

directed inwardly of the box. SAMUEL WHITEHAUL.

4. The combination with a box including a top, U-shaped members having their legs Witnesses. passed through the bottom and the top of GEORGE On'rsou, 15 the box at each end of the latter, with the G. M. COLE. 

